Yesterday, November 9th, at COP27, Al Gore, former Vice President of US, environmentalist and businessman, presented a detailed inventory that was compiled by �Climate TRACE� � a coalition that built a hight technology tool to track human-caused greenhouse gas emissions.

And it was surprising to learn that last year emissions from oil and gas production were about double what countries reported to UN and that oil and gas leaks were a significant source of �super-emitting� sites.

Climate TRACE is able to determine in detail the locations where the pollution emissions are in real time, including a Power plant in Brazil or a ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Also they could highlight that the top 14 individual sources of emissions in the world are all oil and gas fields and Texas’ Permian Basin is the #1.

The goal, according to Al Gore, is to monitor all significant human-caused GHG emissions world wide from every sector and in every part of the world supplying authorities and companies with this accurate data.

Data is important to Governments as we know some of them struggle with technologies and processes to track and report their emissions.

Looking at Companies we can see in the near future a different way of making business with multinational corporations about switching suppliers. According to Protocol news, Companies that want to decarbonize their supply chains � which includes a number of major tech companies from Salesforce to Apple � can simply use the information to purchase products from the cleanest facilities.

The inventory is on Climate TRACE�s website and free for anyone to access. It includes emissions data for 72,612 individual sources, including power plants, steel mills, and oil and gas fields. It also includes sources that can move between countries, such as cargo ships.

In conclusion, according to Al Gore, to move faster on solutions to the climate crisis, we need a better system to track emissions; we can only manage what we can measure.